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>> Thanks to everyone for all the tips.......I think I might end up going
>> with Gemma's recommendation on the Contis from PBK. Once I get off my
>> **** and get them ordered I will see how I go with fitting them.
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>> Gags
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> I finally finished my wheels I have been building since about 1990,
> Campagnolo large flange record hubs probably made late 50's early 60's
> from what I can tell from the campag catalogs, with DT spokes bought new
> in 1990 2 x front with 2 x chain and 3 x off side on the rear, using
> FIAMME tubular rims with Vittoria pista EVO CL singles <
> http://www.probikekit.com/display.php?code=C1204 > glued on with Mastik 1
> < http://www.probikekit.com/display.php?code=Y1217 >
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<snip longwinded story of a megalomaniac who was bored and waiting to calm
down after a frenzy of glue sniffing (mastik)>
Well I rode in the Sydney cup open event last night, I was graded in Div3 it
was my first time ever on Dunc Gray and my first time on a timber track.
I went out in the warm up and found myself in the bunch riding next to Shane
Kelly for the two wide warm-up session.
I was a little wobbly initially as I was not used to riding on a track so
fast and smooth, back on my home track in Newcastle it is so rough and tight
you really have to fight it so you can hold a line, it took me quite a few
laps before I got used to the track and relaxed and relaxed my grip a bit on
the bike.
After warming up on my 88.2 inch gear on my Airlite / Stelvio wheels @ 150
Psi I slapped in my freshly finished Campag / Pista Evo wheels @ 180 Psi
with a 94.5 inch gear and was ready for the first event.
It was a 7 lap scratch race with the first 3 riders going through to the
Sydney cup wheelrace final, it was a fairly easy pace and I found my self on
the front with 4 laps to go, I was not going to lead it out from that far
out so I swung up after 1/2 a lap, my friend from my club was after me in
the line and he also did 1/2 a lap then swung up.
Then with 2 laps to go the pace picked up I was down the bottom of the track
and my friend was slightly ahead above me, some riders in front swung out
wide and left a gap in front of me I started to move forward into the gap in
a attempt to overtake my friend out wide, that was starting to struggle with
the pace as he only had a 92.7 inch gear (he changed to 95.5 inch after
that).
He then decided to drop down the track as I was about 1/2 way past him, I
dropped down and quickly slowed and then sprinted around him on the outside
as he was now about 4 bike lengths off the back, I was coming around the
pack fast out wide in the last corner and managed to get around 5th place in
the end.
After that race I was a bit more confident on the track and was ready for
the next event a handicapped repechage over 7 laps, I was off 125 m and the
next rider up the track in front at about 150 m, and there was a string of
riders starting 5 m behind all the way back to scratch.
I went out hard and was on the front for about 3 laps driving the train of
riders in a attempt to catch the riders in front, I swung up and looked back
at the train and there was no gaps in it all the way back to scratch so I
had to stay up high until scratch came past, I swung down onto the back of
the line and managed to get up to speed but by this time the lactic was
really burning and I was quickly spat out the back when they picked up the
pace over the next lap.
So no place in the wheelrace final for me, so the next race for me was a
missing out race.
While we were waiting for the race I said to my friend that the way to race
a one of these races is to control it from the front, I said we should
attack at the start and move to the front and control the pace him on the
inside and me on the outside as I am stronger.
When the race started I was near the back end and immediately attacked and
went to the front outside position, he did not go with me and was stuck down
the back sprinting every lap to stay in, he lasted a few laps but then I
heard them call him out.
I stayed on the front outside until I heard there was only 3 riders left, I
slowed and dropped back to box in the 3rd rider who was on the inside on the
wheel of the guy who had been riding on the front the entire race, as we
were coming into the straight with 1 lap to go I picked up the pace and hit
the line putting the 3rd rider out.
I then rode on the outside keeping 1/2 a wheel in front of the guy on the
inside through the final bend and then pushed to the line taking the win by
about 1/2 a bike length, and winning a massive $40
The state gradings were a little off as two young guys from Muswellbrook
club who race at Newcastle velodrome normally in C grade and road race
locally in D grade, were riding in Div2 compared to me riding in Div3 when I
race B grade on Newcastle track and B / A grade locally on road.
Hopefully they adjust the gradings a little and put those guys down to Div3,
and leave me in Div3 until I win some more
I was very impressed with the speed of the track, and could not believe just
how fast and smooth the Vittoria Pista EVO CL tubulars were on that surface,
I think I am hooked on racing on that track and am seriously considering
paying the late entry and racing again next weekend in the Clarence St cup.
